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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006 .
July 2006 [ edit ]
Umberto Abronzino , 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [1]
Michael Barton , 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [2]
Edwin Broderick , 89, Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY , USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services . [3]
Willie Denson , 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [4]
Irving Green , 90, co-founder of Mercury Records . [5]
Ryutaro Hashimoto , 68, Prime Minister of Japan (1996–98). [6]
Jabron Hashmi , 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror ." [7]
Rabbi Louis Jacobs , 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [8]
Yousuf Khan , 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics , heart attack. [9]
Robert Lepikson , 54, Estonian businessman and politician. [10]
Roderick MacLeish , 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [11]
Padmakar Pandit , 71, Indian cricket umpire. [12]
Dr. Philip Rieff , 83, American sociologist and author. [13]
Fred Trueman , 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [14]
Robbie "Rocket" Watts , 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos . [15]
Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester , 86, member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain . [16]
Balázs Horváth , 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [17]
Herty Lewites , 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [18]
Jan Murray , 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [19] [20]
Tihomir Ognjanov , 79, footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup [21]
Joan Quennell , 82, British Conservative MP for Petersfield 1960–1974. [22]
Anatole Shub , 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. [23]
Jeffrey Wasserman , 59, American painter. [24]
Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson , 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson .
Francis Cammaerts , 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive . [25]
Dick Dickey , 79, player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University . [26]
Joseph Goguen , 65, American computer scientist from UCSD . [27]
Benjamin Hendrickson , 55, American actor (As the World Turns ), suicide by gunshot. [28] [29]
Wilbert Hopper , 73, president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada . [30]
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson , 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. [31]
Lars Korvald , 90, Prime Minister of Norway . [32]
Sir Carol Mather , 87, British Conservative MP. [33]
Nimrod Ping , 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [34]
Jack Smith , 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It , leukemia. [35]
Joe Weaver , 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [36]
Barbara Albright , 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [40]
Gert Fredriksson , 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [41]
Lewis Glucksman , 80, head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers . [42]
Hans Gmoser , 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [43]
Kenneth Lay , 64, CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron , later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [44]
Don Lusher , 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [45]
Paul Nelson , 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records . [46]
Amzie Strickland , 87, American actress. [47]
Prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho , 56, Tonga , car crash in Menlo Park, California . [48]
Princess Kaimana , 46, Tonga , car crash in Menlo Park, California , along with Prince Tukuʻaho.
Poul Andersen , 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien , the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [49]
Juan de Ávalos , 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack. [50]
Ralph Ginzburg , 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [51]
Al Hodge , 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [52]
John Manos , 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [53]
Juan Pablo Rebella , 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [54] (Spanish)
Kasey Rogers , 80, American actress (Bewitched ) and motocross racer, stroke. [55]
E.S. Turner , 96, English historian and journalist. [56]
Tom Weir , 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [57]
Luis Barragan , 34, president of 1-800-Mattress , drowned. [58]
Syd Barrett , 60, founding member of Pink Floyd , diabetes. [59]
Rudi Carrell , 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [60]
Dorothea Church , 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [61]
John Warner Fitzgerald , 81, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court . [62]
Elias Hrawi , 79, President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer. [63]
Dina Kaminskaya , 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [64]
Eugene Kurtz , 82, American composer. [65]
John Money , 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University , Parkinson's disease. [66]
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill , 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band . [67]
Robert Payne, 62, University of Iowa administrator, lung cancer, [68]
Eric Schopler , 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [69]
Frank P. Zeidler , 93, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [70]
George Albee , 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association , argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [71]
June Allyson , 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [72]
Michael Barrett , 76, Irish politician. [73]
Eric Bedford , 78, member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales . [74]
Franco Belgiorno-Nettis , 91, founder of Transfield Holdings, Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [75]
David Bright , 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [76]
Ana María Campoy , 80, Argentine actress , pneumonia . [77]
Peter Hawkins , 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flower Pot Men , Captain Pugwash and the Daleks . [78]
Catherine Leroy , 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life , lung cancer. [79]
Raja Rao , 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura ). [80]
Jesse Simons , 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. [81]
Dorothy Uhnak , 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [82]
Chris Drake , 82, American actor. [83]
Fred Epstein , 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [84]
Abdel Moneim Madbouly , 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure. [85]
Alan Senitt , 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [86]
George Hopkins Williams II , 91, American aviation historian. [87]
Milan Williams , 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores , cancer. [88]
Michael Zinzun , 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist, died in his sleep. [89]
Shamil Basayev , 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [90] [91] [92] [93]
Tommy Bruce , 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [94]
Robert Fumerton , 93, top-scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. [95]
The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell , 71, Dean of York from 1994–2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [96] [97]
Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi , 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [98]
Ali Taziyev , Chechen militant. [99]
Fred Wander , 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [100]
Kathy Augustine , 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. [101] [102]
Phyllis Baker , 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ). [103]
John Coletta , 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake , due to unspecified illness. [104]
Neil Coulbeck , Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [105]
Gerald Gidwitz , 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis , congestive heart failure. [106] [107]
Barnard Hughes , 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor (Doc Hollywood , First Monday in October ). [108] [109]
Fortunato Libanori , 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. [110]
Bill Miller , 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra , heart attack. [111] [112]
Derrick O'Brien , 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas.
Bronwyn Oliver , 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. [113]
Ruth Schönthal , 82, German-born classical pianist and composer. [114] [115] [116]
John Spencer , 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer. [117] [118] [119]
Philippe Takla , 91, foreign minister of Lebanon. [120] [121]
Wiarton Willie , 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [122]
Rocky Barton , 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [123]
Kurt Kreuger , 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara , The Enemy Below ), stroke. [124] [125] [126]
Hubert Lampo , 85, Belgian writer. [127]
Loredana Nusciak , 64, Italian actress (Django , Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre ) and model. [128]
Red Buttons , 87, American comedian, vascular disease. [129]
Pamela Cooper , 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [130]
Jürgen Kiessling , 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [131]
John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham , 63, British aristocrat. [132]
Mark Ryder , 85, American dancer. [133]
Jonathan Solomon , 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [134]
Ángel Suquía Goicoechea , 89, Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid . [135]
Anthony Cave Brown , 77, English historian of espionage. [136]
William Downs , 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [137]
Tom Frame , British comic book letterer, cancer. [138]
Heinrich Heidersberger , 100, German photographer
William Lash III , 45, assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University , suicide after killing his 12-year-old autistic son. [139]
Christophe Mérieux , 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [140]
Carrie Nye , 69, American actress, lung cancer. [141] [142]
Len Teeuws , 79, offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals . [143]
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz , 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. [144] [145]
Robert H. Brooks , 69, chairman of Hooters of America , natural causes. [146]
John Joseph Fitzpatrick , 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [147]
Howdy Groskloss , 100, oldest major league baseball player. [148]
Kenneth Lochhead , 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five , colorectal cancer . [149]
Dr. James Nicholas , 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [150]
István Pálfi , 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. [151]
Rupert Pole , 87, American actor, forest ranger, and co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin . [152]
Francis Rose , 84, British botanist. [153]
Andrée Ruellan , 101, American painter. [154]
Andrew Sudduth , 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [155]
Walter Binaghi , 87, ICAO Council President. [156]
Dr. Keith DeVries , 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania , excavated Gordion . [157]
Kevin Hughes , 53, British Labour MP for Doncaster North , motor neurone disease. [158]
Bob Orton, Sr. , 76, professional wrestler, heart attack. [159]
Destiny Norton , 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered
Ossi Reichert , 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. [160]
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller , 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [161] [162]
Malachi Thompson , 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma . [163]
Galen Fiss , 75, Cleveland Browns linebacker. [164]
Keith LeClair , 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [165]
Robert Mardian , 82, attorney for Richard Nixon , figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. [166]
Sam Myers , 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer. [167]
Mickey Spillane , 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer. [168]
Reg Turnbull , 98, Australian politician.[169]
Raul Cortez , 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. [170] (Portuguese)
Henry Hewes , 89, Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964). [171]
Jimmy Leadbetter , 78, Ipswich Town footballer. [172]
David Maloney , 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7 . [173]
V.P. Sathyan , 41, captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [174]
Michael T. Shelby , 48, American attorney, gunshot wound. [175]
Sam Neely , 58, American singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn. [176]
Jack Warden , 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor (Heaven Can Wait , While You Were Sleeping ), heart and kidney failure. [177]
George Wetherill , 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science . [178]
Tudi Wiggins , 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [179]
Charles Bettelheim , 92, French Marxist economist and historian. [180] (German)
Robert Cornthwaite , 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World ). [181]
Ted Grant , 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician. [182]
Brandon Hedrick , 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia. [183]
Tom Larson , 77, Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [184]
Lim Kim San , 89, cabinet minister of Singapore. [185]
Frank Nabarro , 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics . [186]
Harry Olivieri , 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [187]
Gérard Oury , 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [188]
Mako , 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer. [189]
Ta Mok , 80, Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [190]
J. Madison Wright Morris , 21, child actress, heart attack. [191]
Alexander Petrenko , 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [192]
Gianmario Roveraro , 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria , missing since July 5, murder. [193] [194]
Bert Slater , 70, Scottish footballer. [195]
Heather Bratton , 19, American model, car accident. [196]
Donald Reid Cabral , 83, foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [197]
José Antonio Delgado , 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [198]
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri , 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. [199]
Jessie Mae Hemphill , 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [200]
Thomas J. Manton , 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985–99), prostate cancer. [201]
Dr. Dika Newlin , 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg . [202]
Charles Knox Robinson III , 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease, in Palm Springs, CA.
James E. West , 55, mayor of Spokane, Washington , colorectal cancer. [203]
Russell J. York , 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. [204]
Charles E. Brady, Jr. , 54, American former astronaut. [205]
Jean-Paul Desbiens , 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel , heart attack. [206]
James Callan Graham , 91, American lawyer and politician. [207]
Vernon Grant , 71, American cartoonist. [208]
Lt. Col. Besby Holmes , 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto . [209] [210]
John Mack , 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer. [211]
Frederick Mosteller , 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. [212]
Terence Otway , 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day . [213]
Carl Brashear , 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor , heart failure. [219]
Ezra Fleischer , 78, Romanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize , and professor at Hebrew University . [220]
Hani Mohsin Hanafi , 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack. [221]
Lydia, Duchess of Bedford , 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford . [222]
Bill Meistrell , 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. [223]
Aldo Notari , 74, president of the International Baseball Federation . [224]
Bob Simpson , 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. [225]
Emmeline Brice , 111, oldest Briton. [226]
Floyd Dixon , 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. [227]
Vincent J. Fuller , 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr. , lung cancer. [228]
Jessie Gilbert , 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. [229]
Rolf Arthur Hansen , 86, Norwegian government minister. [230] (Norwegian)
Roi Klein , Israeli IDF Major, won Medal of Courage. [231]
Darrell Martinie , 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer [232]
Princess Tatiana von Metternich , 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. [233]
Maryann Mahaffey , 81, member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [234]
Sir Charles Mills , 91, British admiral. [235]
Carlos Roque , 70, Portuguese comic book artist. [236]
Alexander Safran , 95, Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II. [237] [238]
Elisabeth Volkmann , 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson . [239]
Johnny Weissmuller Jr. , 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller , liver cancer.
Funsho Williams , 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. [240]
Patrick Allen , 79, British actor. [241]
Rut Brandt , 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt .
Nigel Cox , 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. [242]
Abdallah Isaaq Deerow , 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. [243]
Harold Enarson , 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972–81), fired football coach Woody Hayes , hydrocephalus. [244] [245]
David Gemmell , 57, British fantasy novelist. [246] [247]
Dr. Joel Hedgpeth , 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. [248]
Richard Mock , 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. [249]
Sep Smith , 94, Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. [250]
Billy Walsh , 85, Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI , and New Zealand . [251]
Hani Awijan , 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad 's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades , in Nablus , West Bank , killed by gunfire. [252]
Guido Daccò , 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000 , 24 Hours of Le Mans , & Champ Cars . [253]
Jose Lopez Rosario , 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer [254]
Jean Baker Miller , 78, American psychiatrist. [255]
James Olin , 86, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982–1992). [256]
Pierre Vidal-Naquet , 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. [257]
Duygu Asena , 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. [258] [259]
Al Balding , 82, Canadian golfer, cancer. [260]
Murray Bookchin , 85, American author, heart failure. [261]
Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart , 106, famed UK medical researcher. [262]
Anthony Galla-Rini , 102, concert accordionist, heart failure.
Akbar Mohammadi , 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. [263]
Dugald Christie , 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, bicycle accident. [264]
Paul Eells , 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. [265]
Mario Faustinelli , 81, Italian comic book artist. [266]
Frederick Kilgour , 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. [267] [268]
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